[121970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber Cut in CA?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Covarrubias)
Tue Feb 2 20:31:08 2010
From: Blake Covarrubias <blake@beamspeed.com>
In-Reply-To: <1265158958.6107.182.camel@mike-desktop>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:28:58 -0700
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This is actually in my service area.=20
There is an on-going water construction project along Interstate 8 by =
the Kiewit Corporation, and other entities, which are working on the All =
American Canal Lining Project.
http://www.iid.com/Water/AllAmericanCanalLiningProject
http://www.kiewit.com/projects/water-resources/all-american-canal.aspx
I drive by that area often and it is always very busy with workers and =
large machinery.
--
Blake Covarrubias
On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
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> I believe in this case the ticket mentions it was at the site of =
an
> "on-going water project". Contrary to what may seem logical to those =
not
> familiar with the area, the area out that way is loaded with very
> productive farm land and there are lots of aqueducts and irrigation.
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> Mike
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> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:41 -0500, Scott Berkman wrote:
>> Cross-country Fibers very often follow existing utility rights of =
way. So even in a wide open desert, the places the fibers go are the =
"busy" spots. Sometimes its train tracks, sometimes its gas pipelines, =
sometimes its electric, sometimes it=92s a road, but very rarely is =
fiber like that "on its own".
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>> So the cut was likely construction on whatever the fiber was near. =
The other option is that the fiber provider was actually doing =
maintenance (adding capacity, fixing a troubled strand) and did the =
damage themselves.
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>> -Scott
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